"I Want to Be with You Always" was the

country music Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...

song released by

Lefty Frizzell William Orville "Lefty" Frizzell (March 31, 1928 – July 19, 1975) was an American country and honky-tonk singer-songwriter. Frizell is known as one of the most influential country music vocal stylists of all time. He has been cited as in ...

in March 1951. The song was Frizzell's third number one US Country hit since " If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time)" one year earlier.

Recording and composition

The song was written by Lefty Frizzell and his producer, Jim Beck. The two had also penned the "If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time". The song was recorded on January 11, and released on March 19, 1951. ;Personnel * Lefty Frizzell * Jimmy Rollins * Joe Knight * C.B. White * Bill Callahan * Eddie Caldwell * Chubby Crank * Madge Sutee

Success

The song was Lefty Frizzell's first number one on the Country & Western Best Seller charts where it spent six weeks at number one and a total of twenty-seven weeks on the chart.

References

1951 songs Lefty Frizzell songs Songs written by Lefty Frizzell Song recordings produced by Don Law {{1950s-country-song-stub